SIFT.PICS –
sorting historic photographs into categories
Digital Humanities in Estonia A° 2015
Estonian Literary Museum, October 19
fotoparand.org.ee
how content is...
how photographs are...
presented
how content is
searchable
how content is
findable
currently
caption only mentions one person!
textual descriptions only
"Suurturg" ("Big market" is not used any more
no mention of "Raekoja plats" ("Townhall square"), just "tänaval" ("on the street")
how to geotag content?
distributed work
crowdsourcing!
+ social validation
Connection to the Estonian central museums database muis.ee
Beginning of crowdsourced curation of content
rephotography
sift.pics
Android application
Results by
October 19, 2015
person hard to notice on small screen device (smartphone)
exploratory
interaction with content
Unintentional discoveries
* user engagement
* collections communication, popularization, dissemination...
* metadata enrichment
* user engagement
* user engagement
* collections communication, popularization, dissemination...
competition
gamification
artificial intelligence
Vahur Puik
vahur@ajapaik.ee
All pictures used are on Ajapaik or Sift.pics (pictures in presentation link to source)